Re: [O] Link type for HTML5 videos

[Scott Randby]

On 01/22/2017 04:59 PM, John Kitchin wrote:
> That looks too rich for a link to me unless alot of it is always the
> same, or derived, e.g. the id tags.

That is why I said that agreeing on the default HTML export for the link
type will be difficult.

Scott

> 
> Something like this is what a link would look like:
> 
> video:quadratic.webm
> 
> and the html export could certainly generate what you put in the html
> block below.
> 
> See
> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2016/11/04/New-link-features-in-org-9/
> for how to make a link, try it and report back if it is useful
> 
> Scott Randby writes:
> 
>> On 01/22/2017 01:22 PM, John Kitchin wrote:
>>> What would these links look like? And what should they render too?
>>
>> I wasn't suggesting support for the idea, I was just suggesting that it
>> makes sense to to both video and audio if they are to be done.
>>
>> However, I currently use export blocks to do video and audio export. I
>> don't have a problem with continuing that practice since it works well
>> for me. Here are two examples:
>>
>> #+begin_export html
>> <div id="audio-division">
>>   <audio
>>     id="audio-tag"
>>     controls
>>     preload="metadata">
>>     <source src="quadratic.mp3"/>
>>     Your browser does not support the <code>audio</code> tag.
>>   </audio>
>> </div>
>> #+end_export
>>
>> #+begin_export html
>> <div id="video-division">
>>   <video
>>     id="video-tag"
>>     src="quadratic.webm"
>>     controls
>>     preload="metadata">
>>     Your browser does not support the <code>video</code> tag.
>>   </video>
>> </div>
>> #+end_export
>>
>> Styling is done via a CSS file.
>>
>> It might be difficult to agree on what a video or audio link type
>> renders to by default.
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 1:09 PM Scott Randby <address@hidden
>>> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     On 01/22/2017 12:15 PM, Arun Isaac wrote:
>>>
>>>     >
>>>
>>>     > It would be nice to have a link type to export HTML5 videos. 
>>> Currently,
>>>
>>>     > the only way to insert videos is to use the #+BEGIN_video, #+END_video
>>>
>>>     > block with literal #+HTML in them. This seems a little kludgy. 
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     If there is to be a link type to videos, then I think there should be
>>>
>>>     one for audio too.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Scott Randby
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     >
>>>
>>>     > Thanks,
>>>
>>>     > Arun Isaac.
>>>
>>>     >
>>>
>>>
>>>
> 
>